in reply to How to hide a password in a script?
While I agree strongly with the other comments you do seem determined that this is the only way. I don't personally know much about obfu, my brain doesn't work like that. I have used Acme::Bleach though (just to see what it did).
You could put the password/decryption in a separate file which uses the Acme::Bleach module... it's not secure but it'll make decyphering everything just a little harder.
HTH - Mark
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